Book talk- End of 2020/Beginning of 2021

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This series is aimed to provide a recap and quick overview of the books I reviewed this month.

I have reviewed these books, Inheritence by Carole Wilkinson, Drama by Raina Telgemeier and To Be Mona by Kelly Easton.

A quick recap:

Inheritence- Nic, who moves to go live with her grandfather in a old, remote family home but this house has no reception, 30 rooms and 3 dogs. When Nic had nothing to do she went to search for clues about her mother who died the day that Nic was born. When Nic found magical stones to make her go back in time, she discovers much more about the deep and dark past.

Drama- Drama is set during a school production. Callie had always been in stage crew because she can't sing. At all. She's determined, however, to make something that could be at broadway with a middle school budget. But what happens when the tickets are down and the stage crew are having trouble working as a team? Callie still has her own problems to solve. Not to mention eighth grade formal...

To Be Mona- Sage Priestly wanting to reinvent herself. She wants to get rid of her extra fat, unpaid bills and the crazy Mum. Sage has a teenage crush on Roger Willis, but him being "Mona's boyfriend" adds another reason to hate and be jealous of Mona. Sage gets an lucky ending but it wasn't how she thought it would be. Vern, Sage's "best friend" starts a fight with Sage. Mona and Sage have a school project together and Mona invites Sage over and some secrets are revealed...

The book I liked the best was Inheritance because I found it the most interesting in terms of plot. The main character, Nic, is really relatable and grows as a person over the book which was extremely fun to reflect on. Carole Wilkinson did a great job at developing her characters back story and history,  which made it lots more enjoyable to read and created an element of suspense.

Here is some information on these books,

Inheritence- HERE posted on the 19th of November

Drama- HERE posted on the 12th of February

To Be Mona- HERE posted on the 11th of March

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To Be Mona

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Author- Kelly Easton
Genre- Fiction

Theme- Be you
Target audience- 12+

I chose 'be you' for the theme because Sage was trying to make herself into a different person. Sage was trying to be someone else, trying to be Mona. I think Sage would have been better off just being herself. This way she would've found friends who love her by being herself and not having friends that like her "fake" self. 

I chose 12+ for the target audience because this book needs you to think past the surface and deeper. Otherwise, you don't get the plot or the characters well enough to understand this book well and enjoy it.

In this book Sage Priestly wants to reinvent herself. Get rid of the extra fat, unpaid bills and the crazy Mum. Sage has a teenage crush on Roger Willis, but him being "Mona's boyfriend" adds another reason to hate and be jealous of Mona. Sage gets an lucky ending but it wasn't how she thought it would be. Vern, Sage's "best friend" starts a fight with Sage. Mona and Sage have a school project together and Mona invites Sage over and some secrets are revealed...

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars. At the beginning of the book, it was really well written and the characters were muti-dimensional and had depth. I loved the beginning and if it kept going that way I definitely would've given a rating of 5 stars. Unfortunately, the ending was horrible. I found it to be really rushed and it was really anti-climatic. Mona was really dry and we barely knew anything about her even though she's one of the main characters.

The question of the post is- do you like school projects? I don't mind them, but sometimes they take a long time to do and can be a bit annoying. It also depends on the topic and how we need to display them e.g dioramas, posters etc. What about you? 

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Drama

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Author- Raina Telgemeier   
Genre- Graphic Novel, Everyday Life 
Theme- Be persistent 
Target audience- 10+ 

l chose to be persistent for the theme because when Callie's (the main character) school did the school production for Moon over Mississippi, Callie wanted to audition but she couldn't sing. So, she had to stick to being on stage crew instead. She kept trying to do her job but there was a lot of stress from the actors and everything was going wrong!

l chose 10+ for the target audience because some of the pictures I would say are only tweens and up (there is a very brief kissing scene). There are also lots of characters that have similar names and it is easy to get confused.

This book, Drama was about a school production. Callie had always been in stage crew because she can't sing. At all. She's determined, however, to make something that could be at broadway with a middle school budget. But what happens when the tickets are down and the stage crew are having trouble working as a team? Callie still has her own problems to solve. Not to mention eighth grade formal...

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars because I feel the ending was quite rushed. It wasn't the best ending but it wasn't the worse either. This was a well drawn graphic novel and I could understand the plot. This shows that the pictures conveyed the story well.

The question of the post is would you like to act in a production? I don't think I would as I have stage fright. Personally, I also find it quite daunting to perform/talking in front of people. I would rather be in the background, painting sets, directing, making costumes, doing make up etc.

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